INVESTMENT RARITIES INCORPORATED
was founded in 1974 by Jim Cook, and has since grown to be one of the nation’s leading silver and gold dealers. In the 48 years of service, IRI has logged 400,000 transactions for 60,000 customers equaling $3 billion sold and delivered.
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Mona’s Broadside
The syndicated columnist and best-selling author Mona Charen wrote a book published in 2004 titled, Do-Gooders, How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help. At the time, this book resonated with me because I had previously written about the damages caused by free money and the dole. Here are a few paragraphs from her book: READ MORE
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The Silver Institute
The annual world silver survey from the Silver Institute reports, “No growth in the total supply (mining plus recycling) of silver and sharply increased demand growth of 18%.” The silver deficit of 237 million ounces is the highest in modern times. Nothing could be more bullish than using up more silver than is produced. Eventually, this kind of shortage must lead to higher prices. The law of supply and demand insists that more demand than supply (by a large margin) must result in rising prices. However, silver prices were lower on average over the year 2022 than the year before. READ MORE
